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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISCONTINUOUS, a.
1. Broken off; interrupted.
2. Separated; wide; gaping.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities [ant: continuous]
2: not continuing without interruption in time or space; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling" [syn: discontinuous, noncontinuous] [ant: continuous, uninterrupted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1718 1. a. (1) not continuous <a discontinuous series of events> (2) not continued ; discrete <discontinuous features of terrain> b. lacking sequence or coherence 2. having one or more mathematical discontinuities — used of a variable or a function • discontinuously adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. lacking continuity in space or time; intermittent. Derivatives: discontinuity n. discontinuously adv. Etymology: med.L discontinuus (as DIS-, CONTINUOUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Discontinuous Dis`con*tin"u*ous, a. 1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. --De Quincey. 2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. ``Discontinuous wound.'' --Milton. Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A process that is discontinuous happens in stages with intervals between them, rather than continuously. = intermittent ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Interrupted, broken, intermittent, discrete.

Moby Thesaurus

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